The wonderful French writer Jules Verne wrote a lot of different adventure novels. Many of them are known all over the world. It’s “Around the world in 80 days”, “2000 leagues under the sea”, “Mysterious island” etc. Each of them has a unique main character. This essay deals with one of them, Phileas Fogg.

In my opinion, this personage is the best in the novel “Around the world in 80 days”. So, Jules Verne was writting: “Mr. Phileas Fogg lived, in 1872, at No. 7, Saville Row, Burlington Gardens, the house in which Sheridan died in 1814. He was one of the most noticeable members of the Reform Club, though he seemed always to avoid attracting attention; an enigmatical personage, about whom little was known, except that he was a polished man of the world.” This passage gives an accurate description of  Phileas Fogg from the outside. But throughout the novel we get to khown the character from the other side.

I personally like different literature personages but Phileas Fogg seems exclusive to me. He is noble, laconic, but effective. The author was writing: “His countenance possessed in the highest degree what physiognomists call "repose in action," a quality of those who act rather than talk.” His regularity of life suprises people and they want to find mystery in Phileas Fogg’s life but in vain as his mystery is kindness, responsiveness and sharpness of mind. Jules Verne was writing “He was not lavish, nor, on the contrary, avaricious; for, whenever he knew that money was needed for a noble, useful, or benevolent purpose, he supplied it quietly and sometimes anonymously. He was, in short, the least communicative of men. He talked very little, and seemed all the more mysterious for his taciturn manner. His daily habits were quite open to observation; but whatever he did was so exactly the same thing that he had always done before, that the wits of the curious were fairly puzzled.” All these human qualities make Phileas Fogg one of the best characters of “Around the world in 80 days”.

In summary,we can say that Phileas Fogg is an extremely unusual person and it makes him an incomparable character.

Ключина Ольга Евгеньевна, ученица 9 Б класса МАОУ СОШ №12 имени маршала Советского Союза К.К. Рокоссовского г. Великие Луки Псковской области 

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